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Maybe Apple should stick to hardware.

Just sell me the beautiful hardware.

I'll manage installing an OS that's 1. audited by a community of volunteers I generally trust and 2. can be audited (read: modified) by me: I can compile it from scratch.

Apple's OS offerings provide neither 1 nor 2.

But, go figure, Apple's OS offerings are based off of OS code that is both 1 and 2.

Like a "Linux distro", Apple gives me a lot of stuff I do not want or need, and makes it very difficult if nt impossible to remove.

I want a very minimal BSD or Plan9 OS running on my Apple hardware.

And nothing more.

Hardware we purchase should come with full documentation for writing drivers.

If enough users demand this, maybe someday it will.




What's stopping you from installing FreeBSD or Apple's hardware?

Everything has bugs, community volunteers are not infallible. It's good to be able to audit the things you use, but most people can't or won't do it.




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